Czech Monitor

By Jes Golbez

December 21st, 2001

With the Czech Extraliga adjourned for the Christmas break, the best players will be representing the Czech Republic at the Baltic Cup and the U20 World Junior Championships. A perfect time to update the progress of our monitored prospects.

Congratulations to Petr Cajanek, Libor Pivko and Marek Posmyk (all of Zlin) for representing the Czechs at the Baltic Cup.

Unfortunately for Puncochar and Ondrej Nemec, they were the last cuts from the WJC team, and will have to sit and watch their countrymen go for the “Gold Hat-trick” in Pardubice.New in this update: Marek Chvatal, a smallish defenseman from Trinec who is ranked #6 on HF’s Czech Republic page.